The Renaissance

First....The Stuff we're reading...The Sonnets! (Shakespeare's mainly...)MACBETH....
A lot of Poetry

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
To his Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
Death be Not Proud by John Donne

and...A Meditation (a thoughtful reflection on a topic or theme)

Meditation 17 by John Donne

Second....Stuff you need to know.....Tone, Pastoral, Metaphysical Writing, Conceits, Carpe Diem, Poetry, Turn of the Sonnet, Quatrains, SonnetMeter, Iambic Pentameter, Themes, Chiasmus, Antithesis, Monologue, Soliloquy, Humanism, Renaissance, Reformation,